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Hitch 5 Travel, Hitch Lead: Eric, Kyle

Hitch 5 Travel/Vegetation A small crew of core members Kyle and Eric spent the ﬁrst week of this hitch ﬁnishing up the BLM Travel Management project. This involved using GPS and maps to ﬁnd primitive roads and install signs. Kyle and Eric continued the vegetation project during the second week,hiking through previously burned areas to measure tree re-growth.Megan and Jenna also helped with the vegetation project. We spent our time sampling seedling regen near Blackbird Mine. For 10 hours a day, we traversed through fallen trees and debris looking for plots using Garmin GPS units, topomaps, and compii. We also sampled huckleberries from time-to-time, which grew in thick mats on the forest ﬂoor, lush from the acidic soil and burn debris. Lodgepole pine were struggling for recruitment, bunching in waist high clusters. Even the devastating clear creek ﬁre eventually mends. 10 years later, early succession is in full swing in the Salmon-Challis.

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